Jeff Tedford <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>I'm on a tight budget-can you narrow the field to 2-3
>reccomendations?

Impossible.:-)

BTW, I was collecting WINTERREISE recordings at about Philip's pace until
a few months ago, when I decided that all I was doing was adding a lot of
very mediocre (or worse) recordings of the cycle, taking up a lot of space,
without any hope of ever having a *complete* collection.

Of the 70 or so recordings I have, these are the ones that I'd keep, if
forced to trim my WINTERREISE collection to the bone:

Fassbaender/Reimann (EMI)
Anders/Raucheisen (DGG)
Hagegard/Schuback (RCA)
Pears/Britten (Decca)
Pregardien/Staier (Teldec)
Greindl/Klust (DGG)
Schmitt-Walter/Leitner (Preiser)
Quasthoff/Spencer (RCA)
Huesch/Mueller (Preiser)
Schmidt/Jansen (DGG)
Van Dam/Baldwin (Forlane)
Schreier/Richter (Philips)
Hotter/Raucheisen (DGG)
Gmyrya/Ostrin (Melodiya LP)
Hynninen/Gothoni (the first one on Fuga LP, from around 1980)

William D. Kasimer
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